Zero Dollars for Apple.
Watson claims to be a trained graphic designer, but he doesn’t seem to really know much about fonts. In my opinion, the logic here is a little bit rich: the font that Microsoft uses is called Segoe, which Microsoft first registered and has been using since 2004. They’ve been using it extensively for years. Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/186866/did-microsoft-shamelessly-rip-off-apple-when-designing-their-new-logo/?utm_medium=faceb&utm_campaign=spread-us#b8tctFtj7vB6Y0CO.99
Sad but True.
The Center for Design Innovation shared the tape of a rare speech recently that I thought was a fascinating snapshot of the transitional period from mainframe to personal computing. Jobs is typically charismatic in the speech, begging the attending designers to help Apple make computers that actually look good.
The New Apptivity Game for Batman from Mattel, worth to try if you are a Batman and Apple fan and just for 20 Bucks!
On October 6, 1997, in response to the question of what he’d do if he was in charge of Apple, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell stood before a crowd of several thousand IT executives and answered flippantly, “What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.” A little more than a month later, on November 10, 1997, new Apple Interim CEO (iCEO) Steve Jobs responded, speaking in front of an image of Michael Dell’s bulls-eye covered face, “We’re coming after you, you’re in our sights.” Read more at http://macdailynews.com/2012/08/22/apple-now-worth-30-times-dells-market-value/#lvQrHuWxe2v9qmzF.99
In your Face!
Go Lego!
The YouTube series “How it Should Have Ended” parodies alternate endings to famous films in cartoon animation.
Microsoft unveiled a brand-new company logo Thursday morning, and graphic designers have given it a split vote.
mmm...I don't think so Microsoft...
Dropbox is an awesome service. You can back your files up to the cloud, sync them between computers, and share them with your friends. That's not all it can do, though. Here are our top 10 favorite clever uses for our favorite file syncing program.
If you’re good at what you’re doing and you have friends in the start-up scene then there is a chance that at some point you will be offered the chance to join a newly minted company. Imagine two guys, one has the idea for a product, the second can sell it. They incorporate, maybe they have a bit of savings, maybe they have a third guy with some money as an initial investor. Now all they need is to get a guy to build the thing.
Worth to read!
A trusted Verizon employee has just confirmed to TechCrunch that the carrier is having an all-staff vacation blackout from the dates of Friday, September 21 to September 30.
That said, all entrepreneurs should be so lucky. We can’t all be grand visionaries. We want to make our business, sell it, make some money, raise a family, and try to be happy. My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
Control your DSLR and preview images with an iPad or an iPhone. No Wires, No Worries!
Tired of OS X Mountain Lion notifying you of things? Sick of the little menu bar icon in the upper right corner of your Mac’s screen? Do you not even use Notifications at all on your Mac? You might, then, want to get rid of the entire thing, disabling it completely and removing the icon from the menu bar. Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/184669/get-rid-of-notification-center-menu-bar-icon-and-all-in-mountain-lion-os-x-tips/?utm_medium=faceb&utm_campaign=spread-us#RPBWLRAhxTZe2ZMP.99
h.264 has been a boon to video producers and consumers. It allows high quality video content to be compressed, decompressed, and stored very efficiently. Well, everything comes to an end, and it looks like MPEG is moving forward on their next generation video spec that delivers the same quality content in half the space.
Adobe officially pulled Flash for Android from the Google Play store on Wednesday, all but ending the dream of mobile Flash as a viable platform. The move was announced on an Adobe blog post on June 28th, but Flash remained available on Google Play until Wednesday.
Apps to know from where the sunrise will come.
Nice Tutorial!
Apple succeeded today in getting the entirety of an internal Samsung report comparing the iPhone to its own Galaxy S admitted into evidence. First reported by All Things D, the 132-page document paints a picture of Samsung recognizing superior elements of Apple’s user experience and changes Samsung needed to make in order to improve its own products. In most cases, these "Directions for Improvement" amounted to adding features or details where Apple’s interface was better, and subtracting those things that made Samsung's interface appear complex in comparison. While it's easy now to pick out areas where both iOS and Android engineers borrow from one another for new ideas about functionality, the document shows just how finely Samsung aimed to emulate Apple's user experience in 2010.
In today’s post I’m going to do something a little different by just having a nice little sit down chat. I’ve never done this in the 3 years I’ve been running this site, but I thought this might be a nice chance for me to share a few red flags I’ve noticed that tell me that whether or not I would want to work with you more than once.